Word: lightweight
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Radcliffe's lightweight four was jumped at the start by Wellesley and Yale, but came on strong at the finish to place a solid third, nearly overtaking Yale...
...company's average 1977 subcompact. Obviously the "large" car of 1985 will be a lot smaller than the behemoth of today. But GM hopes to accomplish much of the weight reduction by such methods as paring down the thickness of cylinder walls and engine blocks, using more lightweight aluminum and alloys, and expanding the use of front-wheel drive systems, which are more efficient than conventional rear-axle drives. Additionally, GM last week began construction of a plant to make a new generation of lightweight and more efficient small-car automatic transmissions...
...lights have had trouble finding lightweight competition in the Boston area this spring, and many of their opponents have been heavyweights. They have had mixed results against these teams, though they defeated every lightweight crew they faced...
...contrast to tenors like Jon Vickers or James McCraken, who sing as if they had swallowed cooking knives, Pavarotti's sings effortlessly. Nothing is worse than a singer who strains. But unfortunately, Mr. Pavarotti, like too many other lyric tenors, suffers from the identity crisis of a vocal lightweight. Not satisfied with the lyric repertoire, he wants to conquer the dramatic roles; Manrico, Radames, Canio. He could make no greater mistake. Nothing destroys a lyric tenor more quickly or completely than straining to sing those dramatic works to which his voice is not suited; the color darkens, the voice loses...
Slice of Bread. The system consists of a lightweight, fully automatic camera and a viewing box (both made for Polaroid by an Austrian firm) with a 12-in. TV-like screen, and film-loaded cassettes. The cassette, containing 42 ft. of super 8-size film for nearly three minutes of shooting, is slipped into the camera, exposed, removed and dropped into the viewer like a slice of bread into a toaster. In 90 seconds, the film is processed as it is rewound inside the cassette before being projected on the screen in full color. The cassette then pops...